Henry Update

Some of our family knows about Henry's sickness these past few days, and that's the reason why we haven't been posting anything. We found out yesterday that Henry has the roto-virus, a gastro-intestinal virus, which has also caused him to be lactose intolerant (probably temporary). We found this out at a doctor's office in downtown GC yesterday afternoon, after Henry had been hysterically crying for most of the afternoon. On Tuesday, he had been hysterical and inconsolable from mid-morning until about 9pm! He only abated when we took him for walks outside. On Tuesday night, the hotel called a doctor who found that he was really gassy, and gave him anti-colic drops and prescribed anti-gas medication. That helped for that night and he slept pretty well, then he was great during the 4-hour U.S. Embassy appointment on Wednesday morning, then took a 2-hour nap, so we thought he was out of the woods, but he got really bad yesterday afternoon. We are giving him Pedialite for the dehyrdration and we bought soy formula for food, but he probably won't want that until the "bad" formula has exited his system, which might take 24 hours (so by mid-afternoon today).

In the meantime, we can tell how bad his stomach hurts and how much pain he is in but our powerless to stop it. Really, this has been the hardest few days of our entire lives. The pure joy of meeting our son is tempered by the fact that he is very sick, and we as new parents are trying everything we can but we don't really know what to do in the end. The good thing is that he slept fairly well last night, which allowed us to sleep too! If he doesn't improve by this afternoon we will have to take him into the doctor again, which we might do regardless to get some advice on his condition.

We have been talking to family members with a medical background for advice as well, but any suggestions from our "readership" would be great as well. In the meantime, we will attempt to keep that stiff upper lip.